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Comment Re:I actually like this trend... (Score 1) 833

Yes, because trolls would never stoop to using fake "real" names.

Well, they'll find it very difficult to do that unless they figure out a way to spoof the same name on their credit card.

You can use the same credit card to create multiple WoW accounts with multiple "real" names... no spoofing is required. No ID check is involved.

Again, the credit card name *does not* need to match the account name.

Comment Re:Okay... (Score 1) 354

Well, I've already moved Green/Independent (even the Democrats if they field a canditate) up my voting list, but the Liberals would have to drop Abbot before I'd even consider voting them above Labour. There's still a lot to prefer about Labour over Liberals, especially if the stupid schemes can be frustrated in the Senate. While putting Abbot in for a term might sound good, I can still remember thinking that the previous Labour government needed some time in opposition and what resulted from that :(. Still, there is still time to do some letter writing to politicians and raise their fears, that might make a difference when it comes time to assign portfolios :).

Comment Ian M Banks (Score 1) 392

Space opera author Iain M Banks' spaceships (from his various Culture novels) are propelled by "traction fields" which engage with the "energy grid" (sic) underlying the universe. Banks readily admits that this is purest gibberish with no basis in any known science. Perhaps in light of this research he can backtrack and claim to have been describing a form of quantum propulsion all along?

Privacy

Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Enters Beta Testing 137

schliz writes "Developers of The Pirate Bay have launched their new Virtual Private Network (VPN) service to some 180,000 pre-registered beta testers. An e-mail to beta testers read. 'IPREDator does not store any personal details about its clients. IPREDator does not store any traffic habits you might have. IPREDator is the key to a free internet in the renaissance of censorship!' The new service was launched to protect file sharers in response to the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into effect in April."
Communications

You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? 635

smurphmeister writes "My wife and I recently moved up to the world of cell phones, after taking our sweet time to make sure this whole newfangled technology was going to stick around. We moved the old landline phone number to her phone, so we're disconnected from the pole. Now the question is, what to do with the copper already in our house? My first thought was an intercom system, but that just seems so old school! So what ideas do you all have for what to do with the 4 little wires running to every room of my house?"

Comment Re:CopTube (Score 1) 238

I'm more interested in a mobile phone YouTube to report misdeeds and abuses by police officers.

I assume you're familiar with this ongoing investigation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tomlinson

If it wasn't for mobile phone cameras, the completely unprovoked police brutality which led to Ian Tomlinson's death would been neatly covered up with a bogus "natural causes" finding.

Comment Here's a few freeware tools (Score 1) 219

SelfImage 1.2.1.92
SelfImage is a disk imaging program for Windows. It's capable of making an image file of any hard disk or partition on your system. It can even make images of partitions that Windows doesn't recognize or assign a drive letter to (ie: Linux partitions). Perfect for the dual-boot system.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/SelfImage/1134441375/1

DiskTools ImageMaker 1.1
DiskTools ImageMaker is a lightweight disk backup software. It enables you to make exact images of your entire hard drive, or separate partitions on a hard drive, to disk files. The images then may be restored to the initial or any other hard drive or volume, regardless of a file system it is formatted in.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/DiskTools_ImageMaker/1055944044/1

DriveImage XML 2.01
# Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
# Browse these images, view and extract files
# Restore these images to the same or a different drive
# Copy directly from drive to drive
# Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler
Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use.
Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools.
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm\

ODIN 0.11 Beta
ODIN is a utility for easy backup of hard drive volumes or complete hard drives under Windows. A disk image can be created or restored. Only used clusters can be backuped, compression on the fly is possible.
http://odin-win.sourceforge.net/

Media

Submission + - College Students Illegally Sharing

An anonymous reader writes: The IndyStar has an article about how copyright infringement is rampant on college campuses here. The article explains that if the schools do nothing about it, they could be subject to lawsuits. However, the punishments used by the school don't appear to be too harsh for the first couple offenses.
Movies

Journal Journal: Review: Wild Hogs 1

I attended a screening of Wild Hogs tonight. It stars Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, John Travolta and William H. Macy, as middle-aged professionals who ride bikes as a hobby, and are each going through a midlife crisis. Therein lies the irony; All of the stars have been in major roles in blockbusters at some point in their lives, but haven't had much exposure Hollywood since. Essentially, unintentionally, the actors play themselves. It's for this reason I went to see the movie.

The Internet

Submission + - ICANN gives RegisterFly ultimatum; accreditation

kimvette writes: "A letter from ICANN to Registerfly has been published at http://www.icann.org/correspondence/ for public review. Apparently the issues with RegisterFly are even worse than revealed a couple of days ago and they have 15 working days to address outstanding issues and come into compliance with ICANN's guidelines.

A snippet from the Conclusion section of the letter:

As noted above, section 5.3.4 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement agreed in October 2004 between Registerfly and ICANN provides that notice of termination of Registerfly's accreditation may be given if these breaches are not cured within 15 working days.


Computer Business Review Online ran a story on this issue the other day and a new article is about to be published by them. Minute-by-minute developments of these issues can be learned at Registerflies.com, a "support" and customer advocate site set up in response to RegisterFly's ongoing poor customer service and fraudulent billing practices. Millions of customer domains remain under the jurisdiction of RegisterFly and customers' maintaining ownership and control of these domains is now in question.

Some are speculating the RegisterFly will be folding in the coming days, so if you have domains registered through them transfer them out NOW."

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